3 Clues That Your Resume is Giving The Wrong Information
If you're in a job hunt, nothing will negatively impact your success more than filling your resume with your duties, focusing on overused phrases, and spelling out a dry list of your jobs. The reason?
Employers want to hire not only a person that meets the qualifications for a particular role, but a SOLUTION--a candidate that can help solve business problems, lead work teams to productivity, or deliver cost savings to the organization.
All too often, job hunters commit a cardinal error by...
3 Keys to Finding the Best Online Job Postings
If you're in the job hunt now, I would bet that your #1 source of activity is searching for jobs online. In fact, many of the people I talk with are limiting their job search entirely to reviewing and responding to Internet job postings.
While you'll miss out on many top jobs if you spend 100% of your efforts online, there ARE great positions out there for the browsing! In addition, it's a quick way to research your ideal position, plus get solid keywords for your resume.
Use these...
5 Crucial Points on Working With Recruiters
Today's job hunter faces an increasingly confusing myriad of choices about how to find that next opportunity, from where to search for job openings, to how to create an effective resume or even where to use it. However, there's one mainstay of the job market that can pay off in huge dividends for both employers and job seekers: using a recruiter.
While most professionals are aware that recruiters work to fill openings from their client companies, few fully understand exactly how the process...
5 Tips to Capturing the Job With a Thank You Letter
Is there any other interviewing technique that will set you apart like a Thank You Letter? Possibly notsome studies show that only 20% of candidates remember to send one, and of that figure, nearly 80% get hired.
For this reason, I highly recommend using Thank You Letters as an effective job search strategy. In addition to good form, interview follow-up can help to you to expand your network, PLUS maintain positive relations with the employerall key steps in a competitive market.
As a...
Are You Courting Age Bias in Your Job Search?
? Every week, I get requests for resume reviews from candidates who can't figure out what is holding them back from landing interviews. In many cases, these job hunters are inadvertently highlighting their age on the resume-all while hoping that employers will focus on something else.
If you think you might be screened out of the running for choice jobs due to your age, read on for some common scenarios that are easily prevented with a few changes to your resume (even if you're in your...
Get the Most Out of Online Networking During Your Executive Job Search
By now, you may have heard of-and even utilized-online social networking through the various sites available to the technically savvy, including Plaxo, LinkedIn, Naymz, Twitter, FaceBook, Ryze, and a host of others. However, you may not have realized the intensity that using these powerhouses can have on your job search.
To spell it out most succinctly, preserving job mobility, whether you're merely maintaining your professional value or actively seeking your next leadership role, is core...
How Long Will Your Executive Job Search Take?
? That's a great question... and one for which there is no "magic" answer. But if you're in the job hunt at this point, you might swear that the process seems to be taking longer than ever before.
At the heart of the problem is the fact that most companies receive unprecedented volumes of resumes in response to any job posting. In other words, the popularity of Internet job search is at least partly to blame for extending the job search process.
However, even seasoned professionals and...
Struggling to Find that Perfect Executive Job? Try Building Your OWN Network
Struggling to Find that Perfect Executive Job? Try Building Your OWN Network For job searching in today's hotly competitive market, nothing tops networking to build your reputation and expand your centers of influence.
Studies have shown that finding job leads through others outranks nearly all other methods, far outperforming the practice of responding to online job ads.
However, the term "networking" throws off many good intentions by job hunters, as they have been led to believe that...
Want to Find and Contact Recruiters? Try These 5 Techniques
Want to Find and Contact Recruiters? Try These 5 Techniques If you're conducting an active job hunt, you're probably aware that working with a recruiter can be an effective method for your search. However, finding a recruiter that specializes in your field can be a daunting prospect.
Where should you look? How do you know what to expect? And what precisely should you be prepared to provide?
Finding and effectively collaborating with recruiters is mostly a matter of sharpening your...
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